[PATCH 6.1.y] KVM: arm64: silence -Wuninitialized-const-pointer warning

Justin Stitt justinstitt at google.com
Thu Jul 24 18:15:28 PDT 2025


A new warning in Clang 22 [1] complains that @clidr passed to
get_clidr_el1() is an uninitialized const pointer. get_clidr_el1()
doesn't really care since it casts away the const-ness anyways.

Silence the warning by initializing the struct.

This patch won't apply to anything past v6.1 as this code section was
reworked in Commit 7af0c2534f4c ("KVM: arm64: Normalize cache configuration").

Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7c8c5e6a9101e ("arm64: KVM: system register handling")
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/00dacf8c22f065cb52efb14cd091d441f19b319e [1]
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt at google.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
index f4a7c5abcbca..d7ebd7387221 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
@@ -2948,7 +2948,7 @@ int kvm_sys_reg_table_init(void)
 {
 	bool valid = true;
 	unsigned int i;
-	struct sys_reg_desc clidr;
+	struct sys_reg_desc clidr = {0};
 
 	/* Make sure tables are unique and in order. */
 	valid &= check_sysreg_table(sys_reg_descs, ARRAY_SIZE(sys_reg_descs), false);

---
base-commit: 830b3c68c1fb1e9176028d02ef86f3cf76aa2476
change-id: 20250724-b4-clidr-unint-const-ptr-7edb960bc3bd

Best regards,
--
Justin Stitt <justinstitt at google.com>




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